· Private foundation
Geismar Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $435k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT ANNE'S BELFIELD SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| VIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $93,480 |
| UVA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $81,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VA | $60,000 |
| CACF | $50,000 |
| CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION | $32,000 |
| CAV FUTURES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| UVA HEALTH | $5,000 |
| RELEAF CVILLE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SAST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC4× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +35%
- LHLIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +56%
- CHCHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- BFBROOKS FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2017 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- PCPIEDMONT CASA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +70%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
Village school is a warm and welcoming place for girls to discover their strengths, find their own voices, and grow into confident, self-reliant, and intellectually curious learners. by providing the skills and support necessary to engage…
Promoting literacy by providing one-on-one confidential tutoring in basic literacy, citizenship, and english for speakers of other languages to adults living/working in charlottesville, albemarle, contiguous counties
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
The Children's Advocacy Centers of Virginia (CACVA) promotes and supports the development, growth and continuation of child advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams across the state in their service to child victims of abuse and…
To advance programs, practices, and policies that nurture children, empower families, and support communities.
The mission of CHSVA is to build strong permanent families and lifelong relationships for Virginia's at risk children and youth.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CAV FUTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Cultivate Charlottesville ↗
- Who funds Madison House ↗
- Who funds LOCAL FOOD HUB INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT CASA INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds RELEAF CVILLE ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Rimora Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · The Genan Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Manning Family Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Oak Hill Fund · Caplin Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Geismar Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Geismar Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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